“AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE”
“AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE” In the chapter on American Political Culture, the authors of your textbook identify several shared values, beliefs, and attitudes that shape Americans’ views and understanding of the world. These include in no particular order: Liberty, Individualism, Equality, and Self-Government. The authors point out that there tends to be disagreement over how these ideas are applied and balanced with each other, but they serve as America’s foundational values.
When considering these cultural values in terms of the types of power, these would fall within the realm of the power of ideas. Since each one of these are either an idea or a series of ideas, which would be classified as a concept.
1. rank the each of these values of the American Political Culture in order of most important to least important.
2. explain and provide reasoning for why you ranked the value where you did.
3. What ideas or values are missing from this list?
